The minister did not wait for a presser.
At Zolani Tete’s memorial in KuGompo, Gayton McKenzie put the number on the table and then put the politics on it. Hugo Broos left Bafana on R16.8 million a year — R1.4 million a month — plus car, driver and accommodation. That figure was dragged out of SAFA in Parliament on Tuesday after CEO Lydia Monyepao refused to say it. McKenzie said it for them.
Pitso Mosimane was first offered R5 million. After the noise, the NEC moved it to R10 million. Still short of Broos. Still no unveiling. The NEC approved him on 8 August. The contract is not out.
McKenzie’s line was not subtle. “Pitso must be paid what Hugo Broos has been paid.” He called the gap an apartheid hangover: a local coach with three CAF Champions League titles asked to justify money that a foreign predecessor was handed for the same chair. “Pitso has won trophies. Pitso has built a name. Pitso is our product.”
That is the dressing-room version. The administrative version is messier. Wires say money is no longer the only brake — image rights, his school, his staff, a podcast. SAFA has not published those clauses. Treat them as reported, not as a signed annexure.
Bafana are in AFCON qualifying next month. Guinea. Eritrea. You do not walk into that window with a coach still in legal.
This is a pay gap with a calendar attached. Broos: R16.8 million, on record. Mosimane: R10 million offer, not announced. The minister has made the comparison racial and public. SAFA now either closes the deal or explains why the local product is cheaper.
If you watch Bafana, September is coming whether SAFA House has a signature or not. If you coach in this country, the signal is the spreadsheet: cups did not get Jingles level with the Belgian on the first pass. VAR money is in the same argument. Same association. Same week.
* Does SAFA put a number on a statement, or stay quiet?
* Does the R10 million move toward R16.8 million, or does the stall eat the Guinea camp?
* And when Danny Jordaan does speak, is it a contract or another delay dressed as process?